Jonestown Massacre anniversary

Updated 4:33 PM ET, Mon July 6, 2015

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Jonestown massacre anniversary – Bodies lie around the compound of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. More than 900 members of the cult, led by the Rev. Jim Jones, died from cyanide poisoning; it was the largest mass-suicide in modern history. See the story of Jonestown in the "Crimes and Cults" episode of "The Seventies," July 9 at 9 p.m ET/PT.

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Jonestown Massacre anniversary – A portrait shows Jim Jones, the founder of the People's Temple, and his wife, Marceline Jones, seated in front of their adopted children and next to his sister-in-law, right, with her three chilldren. Jones relocated the People's Temple from San Francisco to Guyana.

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Jonestown Massacre anniversary – Children of People's Temple members are tended to in the nursery of the sect in 1978, in Georgetown. (It was renamed Jonestown after the sect's leader).

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Jonestown Massacre anniversary – Members mend old clothes in a house in Jonestown.

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Jonestown Massacre anniversary – The airplane that carried U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California sits on a runway November 18, 1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana after Ryan was shot and killed by members the cult. Ryan was boarding the plane after paying an investigative visit to the cult's compound. The visit and subsequent assassination precipitated the mass suicide.

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Jonestown Massacre anniversary – People's Temple follower Larry Layton, center, stands with police following his arrest in connection with the shooting at the remote Guyana airstrip. Layton was convicted in 1986 by a federal jury in San Francisco of conspiring in Ryan's murder and aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat wounded in the attack.

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Jonestown Massacre anniversary – Bodies lie in a room near a tub of cyanide-laced punch.